3770k delidding

[SouthernStallion]

Fellow hardware enthusiasts, going to keep this as succinct as pos. I delidded my 3770k (as seen in videos to supposedly dramatically increase performance). I bought a German engineered tool, replaced the TIM with MX-4 and resealed it. CPU works. Installed in a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H with latest bios. Custom Liquid cooling (EK, XSPC etc) with 240mm radiator. All works well. What concerns me is the temperature is disappointingly the same as before the delid (before I had shit TIM between the waterblock, now MX-4). Under Prime95 it hits 80c. Context: 4.6GHz, 1.224v. Ambient temperature atm is 23-33c (heatwave in UK); Idle CPU temp aprox 38-40c. Thermometer in reservoir reads 31.Xc during P95 test. My question is, why with all this fancy tech and disassembling is the thermal transmission to the water so shit? And why has delidding made no difference? MX-4 is way better than Intel's own TIM. Trying to get to 5GHz. Any suggestions? (Not paying £35 for a small tube of kryonaught or liquid metal for a couple of degrees c lower as seen in vids). Thanks. T. 

[Br3tt96]

@W-L

[AnonymousGuy]

Uh I thought liquid metal was what resulted in the majority of the gains.

[O9B0666]

Delidding isn't as great of a performance gain for older gen cpus. 7th-8th it is maybe even 6th but theirs not really a need to for gen 3. Take my 4th gen chip for example it just has a heat sink on the cpu no fan. no fans in the case but the GPUs and one exhaust fan, your liquid cooler is basically for looks on that chip as it's not even needed. 

[O9B0666]

Oh and another thing even if you had a 8th gen chip delidding and not suing liquid metal is very very pointless. Liquid metal is what makes the delid gain most the performance, along with scrapping the black silicon sealer off for a closer fit. 

[W-L]

1 hour ago, Tris2100 said:

Fellow hardware enthusiasts, going to keep this as succinct as pos. I delidded my 3770k (as seen in videos to supposedly dramatically increase performance). I bought a German engineered tool, replaced the TIM with MX-4 and resealed it. CPU works. Installed in a Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H with latest bios. Custom Liquid cooling (EK, XSPC etc) with 240mm radiator. All works well. What concerns me is the temperature is disappointingly the same as before the delid (before I had shit TIM between the waterblock, now MX-4). Under Prime95 it hits 80c. Context: 4.6GHz, 1.224v. Ambient temperature atm is 23-33c (heatwave in UK); Idle CPU temp aprox 38-40c. Thermometer in reservoir reads 31.Xc during P95 test. My question is, why with all this fancy tech and disassembling is the thermal transmission to the water so shit? And why has delidding made no difference? MX-4 is way better than Intel's own TIM. Trying to get to 5GHz. Any suggestions? (Not paying £35 for a small tube of kryonaught or liquid metal for a couple of degrees c lower as seen in vids). Thanks. T. 

If your overclocking and not using manual voltage P95 tends to overdo it for a stress test. You can try remounting it again to see if your temps improve since your voltage is pretty low, however for 5.0Ghz that is hopeful at best for a 3770K.

[SouthernStallion]

Thanks chaps

Edited August 2, 2018 by Tris2100

[SouthernStallion]

15 hours ago, W-L said:

If your overclocking and not using manual voltage P95 tends to overdo it for a stress test. You can try remounting it again to see if your temps improve since your voltage is pretty low, however for 5.0Ghz that is hopeful at best for a 3770K.

 

15 hours ago, O9B0666 said:

Oh and another thing even if you had a 8th gen chip delidding and not suing liquid metal is very very pointless. Liquid metal is what makes the delid gain most the performance, along with scrapping the black silicon sealer off for a closer fit. 

 

15 hours ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Uh I thought liquid metal was what resulted in the majority of the gains.

 

Thanks for your advice, decided not to use P95 as won't be stressing the CPU that much in Solidworks/photoshop. V pleased with temps considering heatwave. 5GHz achieved at something like 1.4XXv and some refining in the bios